Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
Another protagonist of the novel: Francisco el Penitente, godson of dona Felicia, was introduced in the same believes of his godmother in cures, witchcraft, and ‘limpias.”
It seems to be the all family is in the santero business, business ran over two centuries. The Caribbean “santero” maintained a kind of secret membership, just as the penitente brothers of Francisco’s land did. Based on ancient African rites, where the “santero” himself contained the power to answer prayers, perform miracles, etc. Different as the medieval Catholic rituals seeking absolution through penance and mortification, but I can see what these two rites have in common when Francisco describe the way is made the “bulto” or “santo”: “his expert hand was not guided by the aesthetic objectives of artists, but by the saint himself in heaven.”
In chapter six the author give us a memory of Sofi’s life, how she got to know her husband, the place where they met, how he called her “silly Sofi,” and finally reconciled.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Second Response: Critical Analysis
Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
In almost all the chapter three, Ana Castillo wrote about cures, witchcraft, and “limpias.” She explain about of certain herbs, teas and different processes “to get well” thru this superstitions and rituals. I was not surprised of that because “Dona Felicia” lived in Veracruz Mexico, in certain town named Catemaco which is famous for people practicing witchcraft.
The writer still added drama to her novel to keep attention of her audience (readers), and Caridad, the lady who was wildly attacked and in process of recuperation, disappear. No body knows about her. A year after her vanish, a couple of men found her in a wild status; like an animal. Not enough with all this tragedy, the people started naming her “la santita” without motive to do it.
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
In almost all the chapter three, Ana Castillo wrote about cures, witchcraft, and “limpias.” She explain about of certain herbs, teas and different processes “to get well” thru this superstitions and rituals. I was not surprised of that because “Dona Felicia” lived in Veracruz Mexico, in certain town named Catemaco which is famous for people practicing witchcraft.
The writer still added drama to her novel to keep attention of her audience (readers), and Caridad, the lady who was wildly attacked and in process of recuperation, disappear. No body knows about her. A year after her vanish, a couple of men found her in a wild status; like an animal. Not enough with all this tragedy, the people started naming her “la santita” without motive to do it.
First Response: Critical Analysis
Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
Ana Castillo’s novel focuses the Chicano’s life; they’re feelings of rejection, their ignorance, and their pain. The author emphasizes the way that parents use nicknames in their children instead of their real name.
The novel starts with a family who came to the USA for the American dream, just as many other Latin-American people. This family had the blessing to move to USA with the whole family and not only the father, head of the family, like many others families do. But this wasn’t enough to keep the family together. The father decides to abandon them and leave them at their own mercy.
On the first part of the novel, I feel that it is an unreal novel; it has a lot of fictional aspects; like in the church where the people of Tome were in the funeral of the little child of Sofi (the main character of the novel,) the kid sat up, cried and lifted herself up into the air and landed on the church roof. I can see the ignorance of the people, they didn’t know about epilepsy attacks, and the same ignorance makes them believe in fictional things.
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
Ana Castillo’s novel focuses the Chicano’s life; they’re feelings of rejection, their ignorance, and their pain. The author emphasizes the way that parents use nicknames in their children instead of their real name.
The novel starts with a family who came to the USA for the American dream, just as many other Latin-American people. This family had the blessing to move to USA with the whole family and not only the father, head of the family, like many others families do. But this wasn’t enough to keep the family together. The father decides to abandon them and leave them at their own mercy.
On the first part of the novel, I feel that it is an unreal novel; it has a lot of fictional aspects; like in the church where the people of Tome were in the funeral of the little child of Sofi (the main character of the novel,) the kid sat up, cried and lifted herself up into the air and landed on the church roof. I can see the ignorance of the people, they didn’t know about epilepsy attacks, and the same ignorance makes them believe in fictional things.
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